Left ventricular global longitudinal strain assessment in patients with Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy: a call for an echocardiography-based classification.

CONCLUSIONS: A new classification of TCC based on strain analysis should be developed. The traditional model is arbitrary; it fails to recognize that in most patients the entire LV is affect, it does not have prognostic significance and the most prevalent typical variant indicates apical involvement. Our study suggests that the entire LV is affected, and strain analysis has prognostic significance. PMID: 33427420 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Minerva Cardioangiologica - Category: Cardiology Tags: Minerva Cardioangiol Source Type: research